Causes of the Revolution Part II

What are taxes?

• money paid to the colonists

• money paid to businesses

• money taken for no reason

• money paid to the government

Why did England impose taxes on the colonies?

• Pay off debts owed from the French and Indian War.

• Build roads to the Ohio River Valley.

• Show colonists who was in charge.

• to pay the French so they would stop fighting

The King of England during the Revolutionary War was...

• King George III

• George Washington

• King George II

• King Ferdinand

Which of these laws made colonists provide British soldiers with food, transportation and housing?

• the Stamp Act

• the Tea Act

• the Quartering Act

• the Fair Housing Act

The 1765 act that taxed paper and printed goods in the colonies was the ___.

• Paper Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Proclamation of 1763

The French and Indian War was between...?

• France, England and Spain

• France and Holland with most Native Americans fighting for France

• England and its American Colonies

• France and England with most Native Americans fighting for France

What were some of the ways colonists protested taxes? (choose all the apply)

• Tarring and feathering tax collectors

• boycotting goods from England

• buying French goods

• smuggling

• starving themselves

What was the American slogan about taxes?

• No taxation without representation!

• Heck no, we won't go!

• King George is tyrant!

• You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

A secret organization formed to protest the Stamp Act was called

• militia

• Sons of Liberty

• Patriots

• Loyalists

The French and Indian War cost King George and Great Britain a lot of money. To help pay for the war, the British colonies were ordered to

• buy French goods

• work for free

• fight England's wars

• pay taxes without representation